Lynne Cohen
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More information on the body of work:
For more than 50 years, Lynne Cohen photographed living rooms, offices, laboratories, waiting rooms, and classrooms. These private and public spaces are places of encounter and social interaction. In Cohen’s work, they remain a backdrop, as the artist has always photographed them without people. Instead, the design and furnishings become the central motif of her images, which subtly convey the bizarre nature of what she finds. The power of Lynne Cohen’s images lies in their clear, almost austere compositions, which emphasise the cool yet appealing effect of the spaces. For the most part, she gives the viewer no information about where they were taken, even though some of the subjects have been given generic names. Cohen is more interested in the interaction between aesthetics and interpersonal behaviour.
Biographical information
1944
born in Racine, Wisconsin, USA
1964-1965
studies art at the University College London, Greatbritain
1974-2005
teaches photography at the University of Ottawa, Canada
2014
dies in Montreal, Kanada